OBD-II Interface

[David Cooley]

At 11:08 PM 11/1/1999 +1100, you wrote:
>Just wondering if anybody has been involved in some sort of hardware
>interface for an OBD-II application?. Not that I'm after one, but it seems
>the 'Standard' for data transmission is readily available for any programmer
>to come up with something on a P.C.


Ross,
I had been playing for a while with it, but the hardware solutions offerred 
have to have internal code written to get them to talk, then something on 
the PC written to interface with them as well.  I have a bunch of chip 
samples from Harris and Motorola for doing OBD_II, but no luck finding any 
samples of code etc... Also, evaluation boards, which are cheap for the 
HC11, are $1000.00 + for the OBD-II class chips.  Guess they only want the 
big money manufacturers having access to them.
Alex Peper, Who I know from my Dodge Neon days, has a web based OBD_II 
scantool available for ~$120.00 US.  Not sure what hardware solution he 
went with, but he has it for GM, Chrysler and Ford plus some foreign 
cars.   Check out: http://www.obd-2.com/

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